Agenda
PROGRAM SCHEDULE (download PDF)
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Location: MIT Stata Center, 4th Floor R&D Commons
6:00-7:30 PM Welcome Reception
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Location: MIT Stata Center, 32-123 Kirsch Auditorium
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast/Registration
Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:45 AM
Tomas Lozano-Perez
L. Rafael Reif
Daniela Rus
SESSION 1
9:00 AM
Fifty Years of Robotics; Now the Practical Payoff
Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics, Inc
Tales from the Blocks World
Matt Mason, Carnegie Mellon University
Dynamic Robots
Marc Raibert, Boston Dynamics
Aerial Robots: Computing in the Sky
Russ Tedrake, MIT CSAIL
The Analysis Revolution in Genomics and Modern Medicine
Manolis Kellis, MIT CSAIL
10:30 AM - BREAK
SESSION II
11:00 AM
Akamai: From Theory to Practice
Tom Leighton, Akamai Technologies
Everyday Life in a Data-Rich World
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
The Evolution of Proofs in Computer Science
Yael Tauman Kalai, Microsoft Research
Quantum Computing and Fundamental Physics
Scott Aaronson, MIT CSAIL
12:25 PM - LUNCH
SESSION III
2:00 PM
Towards a Theory of Trust in Networks of Humans and Computers
Jeannette Wing, Microsoft Research
Harmonizing Technology with Society
Latanya Sweeney, Harvard University
On the Benefits of Coordination – Before, During, and Even After the Fact! – in Differential Privacy
Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research
The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software for Multicore Processors
Nickolai Zeldovich, MIT CSAIL
3:25 PM - BREAK
SESSION IV
4:00 PM
Time Sharing vs Personal Computing
Ivan Sutherland, Portland State University
The End of Moore's Law and the Future of Computing
Bill Dally, Stanford University
How I invented Ethernet at MIT Project MAC 1969-1972
Bob Metcalfe, The University of Texas at Austin
5:20 PM – ADJOURN
Banquet Dinner – Cambridge Marriott Hotel - Grand Ballroom
7:00-9:00 PM
Recognition of Bob Fano
Entertainment by ImprovBoston
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Location: MIT Stata Center, 32-123 Kirsch Auditorium
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast/Registration
SESSION V
9:00 AM
Turtles All the Way Down
Greg Papadopoulos, New Enterprise Associates
Graduate Education and Research in the Information Age
Daniel Huttenlocher, Cornell Tech NYC
Some Surprising Lessons Learned while Creating a Real MOOC-based Masters of Science
Charles Isbell, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:20 AM - BREAK
SESSION VI
10:50 AM
Small, n=me, data
Deborah Estrin, Cornell Tech NYC
The Right Thing: Things We Hit, Things We Missed, Things Still Left To Do
Tom Knight, Ginko Bioworks
Teaching Computers to See
Antonio Torralba, MIT CSAIL
Modeling Brain Connectivity from Functional MRI
Polina Golland, MIT CSAIL
Reflections of an Entrepreneur on Experiences at MIT Then and Now
Ray Stata, Analog Devices, Inc
Closing Remarks
12:20 PM
12:30 PM - ADJOURN